It was 6:45 pm, fifteen minutes before the dance began. Ellie was rushing to get dressed, she was not the type of girl to get all fancy up for these events so she decides to wear a blue shirt with stripes and jeans. As she rushes down the stairs she trips, but Tommy was able to catch her.

"Woah Ellie, you're in such a rush" Tommy chuckles.

"She is going to her first dance as a nineteen year old." Joel informed Tommy.

"You still have plenty of time the party is right down the street." Tommy said.

"Yeah, but the early bird gets the worm, see ya!" Ellie leaves through the front door.

"The only thing is that its late at night" Tommy shouts although he knew that Ellie probably didn't hear him.

Ellie begins to walk towards the party. Her eyes were filled with awe when she saw the LED lights flashing all over town. She also heard the upbeat music playing, her heart began to flutter in excitement. In front of her was a line of people waiting to get in, so it was probably going to take a minute for her to get in.

Meanwhile Dina was already warming up for the party. She was dancing with another guy in the middle of the dance floor while people were sitting down, eating and waiting for their friends to come. Jesse was not too far behind watching Dina dance with the guy.

"She's just a tease" he mutters to himself, sipping on some wine.

Ten long minutes of waiting Ellie was finally able to get inside. She began to explore the establishment before she goes and meet up with her friends. A few minutes later she runs into Jesse and joins him.

"Hey Jesse" she greets

Jesse greets her back with a nod. "she's putting on quite the show."

The two were watching Dina dance with the guy, immerse with her moves.

"I will give you guys two weeks until you guys are back together" Ellie grins at Jesse.

"Not going to happen" Jesse pause "Did she say something to you?"

"Make it one week" Ellie replies.

"Your old man really laid into me today." Jesse starts up another conversation.

"What did he say?" Ellie was still in tune on Dina's dancing

"Another big lecture about my patrols don't go here, don't go there, funny how involved he gets when you're scheduled to go out"

"Yeah" Ellie sighs wishing that she was the guy dancing with Dina.

"Hey, I'll be back. I'm going to go to the restroom" Jesse lays his empty glass down, walking off into the crowd.

"Alright" Ellie decides to stop watching Dina and goes to grab a cake.

Meanwhile the song had just ended peacefully, Dina and the guy gives the crowd a graceful bow as the crowd claps. Dina then begins to walk over to the counter to grab a alcoholic beverage when she was stopped by a couple of girls her age.

"Hey look there is the firefly dad offspring." The blue eye girl growls.

"Excuse me?" Dina raised an eyebrow. She hated that people her age will have a go at her because her father left the town to join the fireflies.

"Your dad is going to end up leading the fireflies to us one day and have us killed." The brown hair girl joins in.

"My dad is trying to find a cure for this infected disease." Dina begins to stand up for herself. "If anything you guys should be thanking them.'

"The fireflies have gave people hope and left them dry, almost as dry as your split ends." the blue eye girl continues to harass Dina.

"Ha ha very funny." Dina said in a sarcastic tone, these girls would always choose the worst time to mess with her.

"It's funny how your dad would rather risk saving mankind than to be with you. I wouldn't blame him. Look at what you have become, dancing with every guy you see, trying to mark your territory on them like you're some sort of ravage animal." the brown hair girl snaps at Dina.

Normally things like this wouldn't bother Dina, she would normally shrug things like this off, but this one pulled her heart strings. Her father did leave her for the fireflies she began to remember the argument they had before he left. Dina turns the other way and storms out the dance crying.

Ellie noticed Dina crying as she sprinted out of the dance and followed her.

"Dina wait!" Ellie calls out to Dina trying to catch up with her.

Dina continues to run away until she felt like she was far enough from the dance. She was on the side of the building by the alley, it was dim there with one light that was barely beaming. Dina slides down the brick wall, has her face buried in her legs and she begins to sob loudly.

"What happened back there?" Ellie was almost out of breathe chasing Dina down. She decides to sit down next to Dina to comfort her.

"Ellie just leave me alone." Dina turns away from her still having her face buried in her legs.

"No, I'm not going to leave my friend out here in the cold during a party, now what happened?"

"Those girls again."

"What did they say now?" Ellie was tired of them picking on her as much as Dina was.

"They said that my dad left me for the Fireflies." She sniffles.

"You know that isn't true." Ellie shook her head, trying to cheer Dina up.

"But what if it was? We got into a argument before he left."

"Yeah you guys got into a argument for he left but that doesn't mean you were the cause of it. Hundreds of things could have been going through his mind at that moment. I'm pretty sure that he left for a good reason and when he comes back he will hopefully have a cure or even come by just to see you again."

Dina wipes the tears from her face, she stares at Ellie and smiles at her. She rushes in and gives Ellie a big hug, she was nearly squeezing her.

Ellie chuckles and hugs her back. This was probably one of the longest hugs Dina has ever given her. Of course Ellie never imagined it in between a building by an alley but at least she was spending time with Dina.

They were both interrupted when they heard their favorite song playing in the party.

Ellie gasps in excitement. "I love this song!" She gets up with Dina.

"C'mon let's dance together" Dina grabs Ellie's arm and begins to run towards the party.

Ellie laughs at how excited she was to dance to this song with her.

The two made their way towards the center of the dance floor, they were surrounded by people doing the salsa. Dina begins to do the Salsa so gracefully. Ellie was trying to mimic her movement but it was hard for Ellie to catch up.

"Gosh you're so good!" Ellie comments.

Dina grabs Ellie's hand and tries to teach her. "Try to catch up"

Ellie soon caught the hang of the dance. The crowd was cheering the girls on. Ellie and Dina laughs with each other. Ellie could not believe that she was dancing with Dina and not embarrassing herself for once and actually having a good time at the party.

Once the song was over the mood in the room changed as a slow dancing song begins to play. Dina wraps Ellie's arms around her waist and Dina puts her arms around Ellie's shoulders.

"You were really putting on a show. I didn't know that you had it in you." Dina chuckles, wiping the sweat from Ellie's forehead.

"Yeah me either you really bought it out in me."

"I have a question for you how bad do I smell?" Dina gives Ellie a tight hug, rubbing her sweat on Ellie's face.

"Like a hot - hot sweaty garbage" Ellie stutters, hugging Dina back.

"I don't smell too bad myself." Ellie rubs her sweat onto Dina.

"No you definitely smell worse than me." Dina chuckles.

Dina and Ellie begins to stare into each others eyes, enjoying the slow dance together.

"Hey Dina I know that this is a bit random, but I just want to thank you for being there for me, being my friend." Ellie was trying to think of something else to talk about. Ellie had the urge to kiss her she was trying to keep her eyes focused on her eyes instead of on her lips.

"No I should be the one to thank you." Dina moves Ellie's strand of hair out of her face.

"Well you did show me how to dance back there so that's how I will accept your thank you." Ellie grins.

Dina gives Ellie a cheeky grin. "You have done so much for me, you helped me understand who I am as a person, you saved my life multiple times, especially from my mom and you have cheered me up countless of times. There's so many things that you have did for me that. You're such a great person Ellie with an amazing personality, I'm glad I have you-" Dina's speech of gratitude for Ellie was interrupted when Ellie's lips pressed against hers.

Dina's eyes were wide open, she was quite surprised that Ellie went in for the kiss like that. Dina froze she did not know how to react. Ellie had her eyes closed, enjoying the sweet taste of her lips. Ellie quickly noticed that something was quite off, Dina was not kissing her back. Ellie opens her eyes and realized how Dina's eyes were big and full of shock.

Ellie quickly steps back "Oh um-" Ellie then proceeds to look up and noticed Jesse.

He saw that Ellie kissed Dina. Jesse's facial expression changed, he was quite upset, he turns around and disappears out of Ellie's sight. Ellie closes her eyes and runs out of the party. Tears were streaming down her face as she was running back home.

There were so many thoughts running through her head at that moment. She had just kissed her best friend's ex that she knew that he could have still had feelings for Dina. Dina did not kiss her back which made Ellie feel bad. Ellie thought that Dina could have had a crush on her, but it turns out that Dina just viewed her as a friend. She let all of this go to her head.

She arrives to her house and bangs on the door. Tommy rushes to the door and opens it.

Tommy notices the tears streaming down her face and how brokenhearted she was. "What's wrong, Ellie?" He voice raised concern.

Ellie didn't answer she pushes Tommy out the way and runs to her room.

"Ellie" Joel was approaching Tommy, watching her run up the stairs.

She slams the door loudly hoping that they would get the message.

"I'll go talk to her." Joel makes his way up the stairs and knocks on Ellie's door before he slowly comes in. "Ellie.." Joel says in a hush tone. He hates to see his baby girl upset.

It was sort of dark in Ellie's room the only light source that she had was the moonlight shinning into her room and the TV was on. Ellie was on her bed, laying on her stomach sobbing loudly into a pillow. Joel begins to feel bad that he sort of convinced her to go to the party.

He sits on the bed and rubs her back "What's wrong? Kids being mean to you again?"

There was no reply from Ellie. All Joel could hear was her whimpering.

"If you do not feel well by tomorrow I can try to see if I can reschedule you going out to patrol." Joel reassures.

Ellie whimpers even more before she speaks. "There's something wrong with me!"

"Oh Ellie, there is nothing wrong with you. Could you tell me what happened at the party?"

"It's too embarrassing I don't want to show my face for at least a week."

Joel understands what Ellie is going through right now he used to be a teenager himself, he just wishes that she would tell him so he could give Ellie the best advice that he could give her.

There were the sound of footsteps walking inside Ellie's room. Joel notices the sound and turns his attention to the door. He thought it was Tommy at first but then he saw Dina.

"What happened?" Joel waits for Dina to reply.

Ellie thought Joel was talking to her again so she ignores him.

"It is okay that I talk with Ellie in private?"

Ellie was startled to hear Dina in her room. She quickly bounce up, wiping her tears.

Joel get up from Ellie's bed "Sure" He processes to leave the room and closes the door on the way out.

Dina sits down next to Ellie.

"You came after me?" Ellie was quite surprised that Dina came.

" Yeah why wouldn't I?"

"Listen Dina about back there-" Ellie begins to apologize when she was interrupted by Dina leaning in and kissing her.

Ellie's eyes shot wide open, her heart began to pound uncontrollably. Ellie closes her eyes and kisses her back. The two began to french kiss, Dina was caressing Ellie's face with one of her hands. Ellie grabs Dina's other hand and held it. Ellie begins to breathe heavy, getting turned on by Dina's passionate, wet kisses. Ellie wanted to remove her clothes, but she feared that she was going too fast and that Joel could come in.. Joel could come in! She quickly stop kissing Dina

"Is everything okay?" Dina was wondering why she tugged away so fast.

Ellie begins to wonder how she was going to tell Joel that she was gay? Does this mean that her and Dina are dating now?

"The way you responded when I kissed you at the party." Ellie voice sound a little bit sound.

"I was just shocked. I was not expecting you to do that, I didn't even know you liked me and I didn't know how to react, I just froze. When I saw tears running down your face and you storming off like that I had to come after you." Dina wanted to clear the air as much as possible.

"Are you and Jesse going to get back together?" Ellie wondered if she still had feelings for Jesse since their relationship was on and off.

"Not a chance! I'm done with him this time."

"We should get some rest. We have to patrol tomorrow." Ellie begins to stretch, cutting their conversation short.

"Yeah I guess I better leave then, goodnight." Dina gets off of Ellie's bed and begins to approach her door. She was quite hesitant to grab the door knob at first. "Was there anything else bothering you, Ellie, or were you just afraid that I didn't like you back?"

Like her? Dina likes her back. Ellie begins to blush" No, no, that was the only thing, goodnight Dina" Ellie smiles.

Dina waves at her before leaving. Ellie fell back into her pillow with butterflies swarming around her stomach. She ended up falling asleep with one problem less to worry about.

I was going to upload this chapter on Monday, but why not give it to you guys early. I really enjoyed writing this chapter and I hope you guys will enjoy reading it. Chapter 4 is coming soon.